Do you run a small gallery and would like people to be able to dive into the hidden depths of your artworks with a powerful zoom? Perhaps you’ve launched an online app and gallery on a mission to discover new artists and photographers all over the world, like Olivier Berger who started Wondereur online gallery. Or are you an artist like and want to show the evolution of your work but are not sure you have the technical expertise?

Help is now at hand with Google Open Gallery, which launches today. For the past few years, we've worked with museums around the world to make their collections available on the Google Cultural Institute. Now, we’ve opened up the technologies behind this project so that anyone with cultural content can publish it, creating exhibitions that tell engaging stories on their own website.

Google Open Gallery helps you to create a beautiful experience for people to view your collection, at the click of a button. We’ll host your content and give you access to our technology at no cost to you or your organisation. It’s pretty simple—just upload images, add video, Street View imagery and text, interweaving your story among the images to create an exhibition that will truly engage your visitors.

Posted by Robert Tansley, Google Open Gallery Product Manager & Laurent Gaveau, Head of The Lab at the Cultural Institute